Frank Chance and Butler Ames Inventions Atop Chicago News
Frank Chance, famed Cubs leader and longtime player-manager, signs a four year extension sealing his role with the Chicago Nationals. Congressman Butler Ames of Massachusetts, grandson of General Butler, introduces an airship venture and aviation ambitions while studying American journalism icons Hearst and Harmsworth.
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Frank Chance
Congressman Butter Ames
Frank L. Chance
Chicago
Chicago Nationals
Great Lakes
Chance
Cubs
Chicagos
Butler Ames
Massachusetts
Benjamin @. Butler
Wright Brothers
Porto Rico
Miles
Ames
Arecibo
Modernizing the English press and Northcliffe linked ventures
The article notes Lord Northcliffe’s push to modernize the London Times into a leading modern newspaper and his influence in British periodicals across Great Britain and Ireland. It highlights his securing Newfoundland timber grants to prevent paper shortages and his involvement with Windward, a ship used in Arctic exploration. It also mentions Cale Young Rice’s unusual career shift from poet to bank executive in Louisville, illustrating a poet banker distinction.
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Drilies
London
Vatous
Great Britain
Ireland
London Times
Newfoundland
Lord Northcliffe
America
Penty
North Pole
Windward
Cale Young Rice
Yolanda of
Cyprus
Louisville
A Taxpayers Show Exhibit for City Reform
An exhibit in New York advocates good city government and reforms in municipal administration. Researchers claim reform is among the most urgent questions facing the United States as urban growth challenges citizen participation and governance.
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New York
United States
Greater New York taxpayers conference highlights urban graft risks
The article notes widespread municipal mismanagement across cities fueling graft and abuses. It covers the Greater New York taxpayers conference in Manhattan showing education efforts, advocates like Mayor George A. Hibbard of Boston, and startling tax rises as New York City grows. It cites a $28,000 saving in tax collection, a 1.61 tax rate, and striking exhibits on school part-time students and city payrolls.
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New York
Lower Broadway
Greater
George A. Hibbard
Boston
Athens
Hibbard
The
Brrery of Municipal Research
City Club
Brooklyn League
New York City
Department of Finance
Humor on Philosophy By Duncan M Smith
A humorous piece on political campaigning and crowds shows a candidate courting voters by generosity and jokes, while supporters flock with praise over spendthrift charm. Interjected vaudeville jokes and short anecdotes illustrate candidness, misfires, and playful social dynamics around money, influence, and entertainment.
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Duncan M. Smith
SARTORIAL DILEMMAS AND A TRAINING GAME
A column on dressing mishaps and style choices presents comical sartorial puzzles. It ponders whether wearing a bowler with a frock coat or a tall hat with boots best hides wardrobe shortfalls, plus a whim about collars. A London Globe excerpt humorously parodies a child acting as a train conductor, demanding cash for a make-believe ride.
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Lffe
London
Pitched It and Pitched It Away in the Wilderness
The Liver pool Mercury reports a boy asked what Moses did with the tabernacle when the people murmured. The reply was he pitched it away. He then read Exodus thirty three seven, Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp afar off from the camp.
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Moses
Liverpool Mercury
Night Rates For a Horse and Free Welsh Rabbit Offer
A quirky local note describes hotelier Fifeks offering a new peheme and inviting guests to Welsh rabbit at no charge in the evenings while joking about nightmare charges for using a horse. It includes a wry aside about conceit as a mindset claiming a missed chance to author the Bible.
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Fifeks
Hoe
Hoston
Tree Planting Along Roads In Stockton Cal
Stockton Cal Arbor club launches drive to fund four roadside tree belts spanning fourteen miles. Needs moisture management and watering across summer, with funds for many sturdy trees. Aims to extend planting along the main Stockton thoroughfares in coming years.
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Stockton Cal. Arbor Club
Stockton
Beason
Arbor Club
Hope
Nie Ebody Janes
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William Randolph Hearst
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
Isle ‘of Thanet
Alfred Harmsworth
Lord Norlhclifte
Jose
Detroit Frog Press
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Coats
North Star
Jim
Humphreys
Selnois Ocenthal Railroad
Omaha
Sioux Falls
Chicago Express
Olice
Schutts & Moths
WAL
Ackley Lawn
Robert Rath
Hank Building
Dr. H. C Mueller
Ackley
Iowa
Frank J. McGreevy
Ackley, Iowa
Rath
Exchange Bank
BRC
DUROC
Jersey
Alii
Chas
Raisch
Callat the Sami
Martin Creamery
Te Chas
Laipple
Florida
Jacksonville
Sioux City
Illinois Central Railroad
Birmingham
Central of Georgia and
Atlantic Coast Line
H.w. Phelps
Bank
Dtbuque
Bing
Owas
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